Other Cultures Quotes - Page 4

• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  Mark Steyn

  Taken, Past, Museums

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• I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Clothes, Political

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• The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

  Edward Said

  United States, Confrontation, Culture

  "Culture and Imperialism". Book by Edward Said, Chap 4, Sect 2, 1993.

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• Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

  John Sentamu

  Pain, Struggle, Joy

  "Reclaiming the English tradition" by Francis Sedgemore, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2006.

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Views, Design

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• I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Children, Educational, Thinking

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.

  David Livermore

  Important, Variables, May

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

  Jimenez Lai

  Cities, Interesting, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

  Octavia Spencer

  Latin, White, Racism

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

  Queen Latifah

  India, Brazil, World

  Source: www.craftychica.com

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• The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don't interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Law, People

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Should Have, Law

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Overall do I believe exchange with other cultures is good, people going back and forth is good, trade is good. Yes, all of these things are good. But I think you have to make sure the system's working. We need to know, virtually 100 percent of the time, when you come and when you leave. It's called entry and exit.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

  Tim Burton

  Spiritual, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

  Marina Abramovic

  Bridges, Giving, Western Culture

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

  Master P

  Country, Rap, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Punishment, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

  Brad Pitt

  Heaven, Age, Different

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• People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

  Martin Scorsese

  Talking, People, Knows

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• I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Egypt, Play, People

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

  Gore Vidal

  Culture, Literature, Jokes

  "United States: Essays 1952-1992 (Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes)". Book by Gore Vidal, May 18, 1993.

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• I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Example

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• I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

  Lauren Hutton

  World, Enough, Models

  "Lauren Hutton: The Wild One". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Art, Fighting, Differences

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